The Loonie Heads South for the Snowbird Season

October 20, 2012 at 06:31 PM | written by Greg Schnell

Given the current chart for the Canadian Dollar, migrating snowbirds might want to exchange some loonies for some sawbucks very soon. The Canadian Dollar continues to hit resistance above the $1.02 level. It had a rough week chart-wise, forming a big red bar on the Elder Impulse System chart.

On the other hand, the US Dollar is strengthening, breaking to the upside compared to the Yen ($XJY), the British Pound ($XBP), the Euro ($XEU), and the Loonie ($CDW).

Commodities have a rough time whenever $USD is strong which is one reason that Gold behaved poorly on Friday. Even so, mining stocks held up well. We'll see if that remains true next week.